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We will publish on interesting aspects of our models. Frankly, our main reason for not doing so is time and resources. In terms of industry research on the who
by aria 14y ago
We will publish on interesting aspects of our models. Frankly, our main reason for not doing so is time and resources.
In terms of industry research on the whole and publishing. It is true that you can't publish everything, but look at Google. Arguably some of the influential systems papers of the last decade or so have come out of Google. Google doesn't publish all the details of their search algorithms, but it turns out that because they address real-world problems they've done enough great stuff that some of it can safely be shared without endangering their moat.
Another aspect to consider is that while industry publishes less, we do tend to churn out useful open-sourced (Prismatic will definitely be doing that soon) that is of at least comprable utility to people out there as most papers.
- Evbn 14y agoHas academia published any relevant systems papers since 2007?
- _delirium 14y agoHard to say: systems has a long lag time before good ideas get "proven" good by being successes in the marketplace. For example, paravirtualization was investigated from around 2000, and then Cambridge released Xen in 2003. It caught on by the end of the decade, in the late 2000s. If something released in 2010 will end up having similar impact, we'll know it by the late 2010s...